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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

in the bombardment of the city or the
blowing up of it, all with roman candles,
sky rockets and bombs. in manner not
at all faithful to facts, but exceedingly
brilliant and beautiful to behold. Citi.
zens and soldiers fly about, boats move
to and fro, the air is full of gorgeous
missiles, houses cape, belch forth colored
flames and fall, amid din of explosion,
kissing and shouts. Crowds pack the
place every night except Sundays.
You notice how often the word
"crowds" has occurred in this article. 1t
should do so, for of all the distinctive
features of Coney Island it's crowds form
the chief one. To see the biggest one we
must leave the high-priced end of the
island-but no, not without glance at
the Manhattan Beach bathing establish
ment, with its 1900 dressing rooms and
it's tiny little bit of natures beach,
backed by an amphitheatre where, for
ten cents, you may have a seat and watch
the bathers. 1t will disappoint you, how
ever. Bathing is not enjoyed except at
great disadvantage at Coney Island. 1t
is not what we go there for.
To get to the crowded end of the
island, the true Babylon by the sea, there
is no other route than by the Marine rail
road, little nlpnopolistic road on piling
that crosses an inlet that divides the
island. 1t is railway on stills, about two
or three city blocks in length, that exacts
five cents toll of all who attempt to see
the island. 1t sometimes carries $4,000
persons in day--it often carries 10000
Passing one more great hotel upon whose
domain the waves crept until the first
beach went. and then the lawn, we no.
tice that it's music stand is over the edge
of old ocean, and that the hotel must
soon be moved or swept away. This is
the hotel favored by the great city OF
Brooklyn. Further along we come to
the tumult and hustle of the cheap end
of the place, little city of beer
gardens, nce-houses, dives, race
course or two, gambling dens, restaurants
bathing places, two iron piers, an ele-
plant, endless side shows, Kinks, shoot
ing galleries, merry-go-rounds and all
the other institutions handed down from
Adam, or since invented, for swindling
or wheedling, or getting in some way, the
money of the ignorant poor and of the
vicious and the young. 1t is a vast
country fair transported to the seaside
1t is enjoyable to the wisest folks, though
much of it is designed to hoodwink the
stupid. 1t is pleasing to the ihnocen1
and the virtuous, though it has elements
that make it unquestionably one of the
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

the sea you could reproduce it in
Montana or Kentucky. Its beach
is gc~e, its walks and squares and
plazas are boards, its only road is a
dreary quarter of a mile of ragged as
phalt. 1t has not even got the ocean as
the other places have, for this is at cor
ner of it and so near New York, that the
water is not always the clearest, but the
air-ah! the cool breath of old Nel tune
is felt there day and night, and that
alone is Coney Islands fortune.
Coney Island in the season has been
aptly described as the Bowery trans
ferred to the seaside. 1t is so close to
half a dozen big cities, it costs so lit
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
A Change of Programme.

~ beg pardon, sir" he said as he stopped
pedestrian on Woodward avenue, 'but can
you tell me where the city hall is?"
Fright over there sir"
"Ah! that's it, Ell 4? Are there any alder
men about the hall this time O. day?"
"There may be-"
Thanks. I suppose you know 'em all ?"
"Most of Them
"Just So Some of them are charitable
are they not?''
II don't know as to that
II see. If found an alderman there he
might not be charitable alderman, eh?"
'"That's about it."
II was going over there to ask some char
table alderman to loan me dollar, but as
the prospects are so dubious and as you have
evinced an interest in my welfare, permit me
to abandon my original plan and strike you
for quarter. "-Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

to 90 to it, its invigorating GOODNESS Ii so
reviving after day of business in the
heated street, that literal multitudes rush
to it, crowding long trains on half a
dozen railroads, and swarming upon
steamers of as many lines until, on Sun
days particularly, one often finds him
self among 100000 idlers on that narrow
wooden sea wall-a quarter of million
souls-a population such as only few
cities excel, and all idle and on pleasure
bent. Naturally the Bowery features
must be the stronger ones, but there is
necessarily food for every taste, however
gentle and refined, where so numerous
and cosmopolitan congregation gath
ers. We shall see that this is SO to
large extent-to so large an extent, in
fact, that we shall find no conventional
watering-place feature missing, except
cottage life and the vague but delightful
pleasures afforded by the beaches that
other places possess, but that the sea has
ruthlessly stolen from this one.
Beginning at the Manhattan Beach end
of the island where those go who have fat
or at least moderate purses, we find two
hotels surrounded by lawns of fine hair
like grass, forced to grow, against nature,
almost to the wooden edge that shuts out
the sea- One of these hotels is avoided
by the crowd, for no one, not guest,
NAV enter it, and it offers no music or
other attraction outside 1t is an elegant,
exclusive resort for rich persons who
cannot venture beyond quick call from
New York. The other seems to swarm
with people, inside and outside. Hun
dreds are forever dining on its broad
piazzas and in it's public dining halls,
while it's own guests almost make up the
full quota of regiment. Suites of rooms
here are let out to New York clubs and
the best known names in town are on the
register. A busy railroad empties its
half hourly trains in one end of the build
ing. and in front of the mammoth pile,
every afternoon, Gilmore's band plays in
a little band-stand built like sea
shell. or half giant saucer, to send out the
melody far and wide. You should see
the crowds when the band plays! In
the first place, there are benches for
$500 persons, free, gratis; then there is a
shifting, moving, restless mass of 1900
men behind and around the benches :;
then there are thousands on the broad
piazzas, some city blocks in length for
these Coney Island hotels are mammoth
structures), and then there are people in
all the windows,
And then the crowds at night at the
fireworks All! there is something no
| other coast resort has-Payn's fireworks.
This Payn is an Englishman, whose prin-
cipal discovery in fireworks seems to be
the secret of throwing up myriads of
chromatic globules that light and glorify
the whole sky above you-that and the
trick of adapting fireworks to scenic eft,
fects. He has great show place fenced ced
in and appointed with seats for 5000
persons in front of stage on which he
has representations of temples and
houses, which he changes each seas on
and calls Moscow" one season and "Con-
stantinople" the next. His show consists
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
WARFARE OF THE FUTURE.
Courage and Physical Strength VIII be
Discounted.

Discounted.
Any one who has seen the destructive
work of Calling guns and reads of the pre-
cision Of aim attained by an Ohio battery in
the contests at Washington, will wonder
whether war can be again carried on at close
quarters. The bayonet will certainly be Of
less use than ever, now that magazine and
Calling guns are parts of the regular arma-
ment. In tests of the Calling gun made at
Hartford, Conn, canvas target, covering q
regimental 'front.' has been cut in two for its
entire length by a few discharges from q
Calling gun battery. It would be physically
impossible for troops to stand such dis
charge, apart from any question OF their
courage and willingness to expose them
selves: to danger. The supposed tendency OF
these Improvements in the weapons OF war
il in the interest of peace-maklng nations
less disposed to fight and bringing wars to
an early conclusion. They will also increase,
II is supposed, the value OF strategy and the
more intellectual military qualities. Courage
strength and personal skill were the main
elements in the days of hand-to-hand en-
cannters. but with improvements in arms
the intellectual forces have taken amore and
more commanding position.-Phita Ledger.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

get no vacations from work except Sun
days and night times is not to be meas
ured by words. And while it has the all
and the sea and the sense of rest fol-
ALTO say nothing of the crowds which
are a source of endless pleasure to the
wise-it has section, or hotel, or cor
ner for the exclusive, the rich, the mu-
steal, the retiring, the domestically in
clined and for nearly all the rest. 1t is
so big that it is little world
Talk may do all the shouting, but Go-get-it
is the one that brings in the game White
hall Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
The Decline of Hero Worship.

The American people are not as much
given to hero worship now as in the last
generation. I have been interested lately to
observe how even our most distinguished
public men 60 up and down the land, show
themselves at the great hotels and in other
public places, and don't even attract enough
attention to cause people to look around.
I sat at dinner with Mr.. Chauncey M.
Depew, in Chicago hotel, not long ago.
and this was the topic of our conversation
Senators in this house and three ex-Cabinet
officers, and they come and go and no one
stops to look at them. When I was boy
I would have walked twenty miles to see a
United States senator "-Anaerieass Magazine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
Vanishing Forest Wealth.

It is stated that 700 600 acres or twenty-nine
per cent of the available pine lands of this
country lie within Wisconsin and Minnesota.
It will, therefore, readily be seen that their
sources of wealth Of these two States. 1t is
accordingly proposition that will hardly be
gainsaid that The preservation of this source
Of wealth is a matter of the most vital inn
portance. So far from being carefully
guarded it is disappearing with astonishing
rapidity.-St. Paul Globe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

When drowsy evening trails her robe
And decks the twilight hens,
With cleaning light, and flashes bright
Of lustrous dewy gems.
And one by one adjoining stars
In azure blue aloof,
In brightness shine-by art divine
Set IN its sable wool.
The little ones begin to nod
And sleepy eyelids fall;
Then evening soft bears them aloft
To dreamland, one and all.
Where beings clad in gossamer
Of woven CLINT and CLEAN,
Tread blithe and gay the milky way,
The highway of the dream.
Then do they know indeed if stars
Are but the watchful eyes
Ofangels bright, who note the flight
Of every one who dies.
And filled with wonder and delight
At everything they scan;
In childish glee, the moon they see
Indeed contains man.
They see the blush of conscious dawn
Her rosy life begun;
See Luna wink and fade and blink
At the approaching sun.
Behold her retinue of stars
Fade softly from the vieve;
And give to day, with lessened ray,
A glimmering adieu.
Then evening takes their little hands
And down the milky way,
They lightly tend, till they descend
Unto the edge of day.
And they begin wondrous flight
Held in a soft embrace,
And down the sky, they lightly HE
Across the mighty space.
Then as the mornings chanticleer
Begins his new refrain,
They're safe in bed, the night is sped
And life awakes again.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
Cried Quits.

arye seen men too mean to lend a friend
oo tasa have Il; replied Filtrip. "And, by
+ha Wavs can't YOU let me have dollar now
for few days?"
BOUNDS, man! was just preparing to
all Won for a iye.''--Detrott Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
Striking an Average.

Employer Ito clerk)-Cant you get around
little earlier in the morning, James?
James (doubtfully)-N-no, don't believe
l can, sir. (Struck with a bright idea.)
But I'll tell you what can do, sir; can
leave little earlier in the evening.-Har'
per's Bazaar.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
CASUAL OBSERVATIONS.
CHAD. M'CoY.

THE WAY THE WIND BLOWS.
That one whose kindliness of thought
Into substantial deeds is wrought
To gain friends affection,
Finds their accumulated might
Forgot, while some imagined slight
Lives in the recollection.
~
PLEASANT UsURY.
The usury of love! Is not the lover con-
scious of giving all he has for the sake of re-
ceiving more than he deserves?
Nv
THE HAVANA CABBAGE.
The man who sells the cheap cigar
To stife all the residenters,
As an eccentric will be found,
Because eccentrics are not round,
And always have two centers."
x*x
AN INCONSISTENCY.
There is in nature force superior to the
assaults of man, and still they call her a
Dame.
x*#
CAUIlON
Mistrust that eager friend of thine
Who would your Utmost thought divine,
To confidence compel you;
Consider how you scarce conceal
Are always prompted to reveal,
The things which others tell you.
Nv
A SAD COMMENT.
Love of the welded is like twilight. There
is glimmer of it in the morning and then
comes the business of the day.
~
CERTAINTY.
"Time is money" 1t is "hours' if we i'm
prove it.
~
SOME MORE HUMAN NATURE.
The man Of sense, in silence lives
And all complaining smothers;
He knows what little heed he gives
When listening to others.
~
FIGURATIvELY SPEAKING.
The highway which Napoleon the Great
cut through the Alps may be called "the
Colossus of Rhodes"
~
ECONOMICAL DUTY.
Should cobblers wish to grow devout
IT'S folly if they falter;
1t will not cost them much to shout
my awl is on the alter
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
A Beach Where Quarter of a Million of
People Often Congregate on Warm
Sunday-The Muititudinous Attractions
and Picturesque Contrasts of the Place.
tCopyrighted, lSS1.l

ISLAND
is the most inter
esting of all wa
tering places of
the country, but
the interest it ex-
cites does not lie
in the qualities
that combine to
make up the 9TH
er resorts. 1t is
almost wholly ar
tifcial. But for
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
MISS LOOKABOUT.
AN OBSERvANT wOMAN'S NOTES
ABOUT TOWN IN NEW YORK.

The Mania for Braiding Dresses--A Girl
Who is just a Little Bit of q Dog--How
to Choose a Rug to Harmonic With Big
Feet--Beauties Behind Shop Counters.
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THR COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA

male patrons. Some of them will start
TO dictate an ordinary letter but as
Mr.. Beaconsfeld once said, when they
get to talking they"become intoxicated
with the exuberance of their own YER
bosity," and before they know it they
have enough idict ated to make col
umn in an ord nary newspaper. 1t has
become the fashion of number OF
New York swells to keep stenograph-
ers regularly employed. One we'll
known dude keeps diary and dictates
for two hours every night before he re-
tires. If it could be published it
would be pretty sure to make mighty
interesting reading. 1t was very
amusing short time ago to hear a
Western senator, who was debating to
a stenographer in the corridor of a
hotel. lie had never been known to
make speech while in the Senate, but
as be talked to the stenographer on
this occasion he grew quite eloquent,
sud denly he forgot his surroundings
and let himself out. He walked up
and down and talked in a very loud
tone, gesticulated with both hands, and
soon had quite an audience, but he
kept right ahead and was unembarras-
ed. There are lots of people who die
tate out loud in the corridors Of the
hotels simply to attract attention, and
it tickles them greatly if you stop and
listen to them.-Neao York Graphic.
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Infant Logic in Search of Pie.

"Mamma said little Bobby, "can't
/ have another piece of pie ?"
mo, my dear. You have had suf-
ficient."
"But why can't have more :"
at might make you sick and if you
become sick you might die"
"Die just like Johnny Brown ~
eyes, my DEAR"
Everybody said he went to heaven
mamma"
eyes, dear. He was good little
boy and always minded what his NAM
ma told him."
Sand people said, mamma, that he'd
be ever so much happier in heaven
than here"
"That is right, Bobby. So he would.
"Do all good little boys go to heav-
en-, mamma? ?"
eyes, dear
cam good little boy, mammal"
eyes. Bobby is a good little boy
"Then why don't you let me have
another piece of pie? Don't you want
your little Bobby to be happy 2
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The Typewriter.
WHAT is REQUIRED TO INSURE THE GREAT
EST SUCCESS IN ITS MANIPULATION.

The typewriter, if it is not already, is
rapidly becoming mightier than the
pen. There is typewriter and steno-
grapher attached to all the hotels here
as is probably the case in every other
city. Some of the stenographers are
making great deal of money by a
little enterprise. To make great sue
cess it is necessary to combine literary
ability with mechanical qualifications.
The observer was talking to the young
man at leading hotel the other day
and he related several amusing things
in connection with his business. He
found when he first started that there
were great many men who made a
name for themselves in the business
world who were unable by the use of
their pens to compose a letter but
they were good takers. He would
take their dictation, polish it up little
and when the work was complete it
possessed some literary merit. OF
course, this pleased this class of pat
rons; and many of them who did not
write two letters week would send
out treble that number every day. To
these men there is great fascination in
talking to a stenographer, and man
unaccustomed to it is often astonished
at the result of his conversation, par
ticularly when the stenographer looks
out for the punctuation and superhuous
words. BY advertising in some of the
papers he has been able to get good
deal of literary work, not only from
men, but from ladies. Among his pat,
rons are numper OF shop girls whose
education has been sadly neglected
Still they ae ambitious to create the
impression that they are not without
literary talents. They have love-letters
written, winding up with poetry of 9
most sentimental character. Besides,
they admire seeing these produced by
means of a typewriter, as it has foi
them about as much fascination as il
has for the spring poet to see his effus
ions in cold type. This enterprising
young man is also called upon to turn
out works of fiction, and has written
speeches for ward statesmen.
But the most amusing feature in
this line is the work he does for his
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Novels.

The modern novel teaches little of
purity or of virtue. Nine tenths of the
story papers published in the United
States are filled with a class of fiction
utterly debasing to the young mind.
They teach that it is heroic for the
young man to risk all the dangers of
the night to steal away the lovely
maiden for his bride. Guardians and
parents-in the novel-are unreason-
able, hard hearted and exacting. 1t is
heavenly devotion-in the novel-for
the girl to risk all the horrors of the
night in slipping out to meet the low
ed one.
And the result of all these teachings
is what? Ask unhappy homes to r.
veal their secrets, look into the records
of divorce courts; read the list of sui
cides. Naturalists tell us that fish take
on the color of the water in which they
swim. Certain it is that the young,
especially, are influenced by what they
read. As food affects .he body, 80
reading affects the mind. We ought
w cAOiuuC ltoih oh IcduiuH cFcTy-
thing that gives false views of life.
Parents should see upon what mental
food their children feed.
There is no objection to reading nov
els, provided you read the right kind
of novels. In fact, too much solid
reading has the effect of causing chill.
dren to dread books and papers. They
require light literature as a stimulant,
and to whet the appetite for that
which is better. But there is too much
of.what Carlyle calls "soap-bubble'
literature.
To remedy this great evil, and to
counteract the malign effects of the
large number of sensational story pa.
pers published in all the larger cities
the country press should place before
their readers class of fiction pure il
tone and free from the vices so com
mon to the class of papers above spok
en- of. The power OF the country pres,
in this respect is limitless, and should
exert itself to overcome this taste il
the rising generation for bad reading
by proving something better.
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Bob Veal Not Poisonous.

The inquiry is sometimes made why bob
veal Is treated with so little consideration by
osr health officers. 1t is perfectly true that
bob veal is neither poisonous nor innutritious.
The only objections are that it is watery
and rather indigestible substance, standing
somewhat in the relation to good veal or beef
that skinned milk does to the pure article.
Veal, as would be expected, has almost ident-
ically the same amounts of fat, heterogeneous
matter, and salts a. beef The tissues, how
ever, have less osmazome, or flavoring mat
ter, are more inspid, and hard to digest.
1t is question. however, whether even the
bobbest OF bob veal is not better food than
the lights which are sold to and eaten by the
poor Bob veal ought not to be sold for good
veal; but under its own name, and at low
price, it might be admitted as an article of
food,-Medical Record
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A man with a purple nose was fish
ing for porgies and suddenly fell into
the water. A fellow fisherman of be
nevolent aspect promptly hauled hin
out, laid him ON his back, and then be,
gan to scratch his head in a puzzled
way.
"Wha.'s the matterf" asked the ex,
cited. .by-standers why don't you re-
vive him p
"There are sixteen rules to revive
drowned persons" said the benevolent
man, ''aod | know 'em all, but / can't
Just call TO mind which comes first"
AT this point the drowned man
opened his eyes and said family:
'Is there anything about giving
brandy in the rules T.
"Yes."
"Then never mind the other IF.
teen.'
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Ooloradosns Who Want to be Senators.


From Denver Letter.
Rich men among these Westerners
almost always want TO come TO Cong.
ress or the Senate, and l understand
that Hill, Tabor and a number Of
others are scheming already for the
election. In the meantime Tom Bow.
en- is al his home in Del Norte, COL,
2s5 miles away from Denver, and Sen.
ator Teller is living up in the mount
aims at the mining town of Central
City. Teller has law office in Den
yer and also big ranch near Pueblo
Bowen's interests are in mines, and he
once told ine that man never got
wealthy selling postage stamps, and
that if he wanted to make fortune he
must strike for big game. 1t was in
this way that Bowen has made what
he has, and he is said to be wealthy.
He rode here from Arkansas a poor
man and for seven years worked a
group of claims in company with
Others in corporation known as the
San Juan Mining Company. 1t is said
the company was badly managed, and
its stock got down very low. Bowen
saw that there was money in its mines
and in 1881 its shares were played for
at poker in Del Norte at the rate OF
two drinks share. Bowen quietly
bought them up, getting, it is said,
$300,000 worth of stock for $75. He
soon got control of the stock. He
pushed the work, soon struck a rich
lead, and thus made fortune. He
paid his debts, ard l am told he is in
terested in the stamp mill which has
since been erected near his mine.